Fwd: [CFP] W3C workshop on Linked Data and Privacy

Dear all,

Just a quick note to let you know that the deadline for the *W3C
workshop* on Standardisation needs and opportunities around Linked Data
and Privacy has been extended to Feb 26, and the workshop will be on
April 17+18!

New dates added in the CFP below.

Best Regards,
Sabrina

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Dear all,

We will co-host a *W3C workshop* on Standardisation needs and
opportunities around Linked Data and Privacy on "*Data Privacy Controls
and Vocabularies*" in Vienna! The workshop will be held at WU *17-18
April 2018*. Deadline for position papers is *26 February 2018*.
Please help us spread the word and looking forward for contributions
from industry and academia!

This topic is particularly important due to the EU's upcoming General
Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which will require better standards
and best practices for protection personal data online.

For details, see the workshop webpage: https://www.w3.org/2018/vocabws/
and below at the end of this email.

The workshop will be supported by the SPECIAL H2020 Project.
<https://www.specialprivacy.eu/>

We are looking forward to your contributions!!!

Best Regards,
Sabrina Kirrane (local chair)

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The level of privacy and trust concerns has raised to a point where
people start to refuse services. Services on the Web are often very
complex orchestrations of cooperations between multiple actors. This
will increase if the upcoming Internet of Things is taken into account.
If the trust in such services is eroded, the growth of the Web and the
growth of the digital economy is endangered. This workshop wants to
address the privacy issue from the angle of data governance and
transparency. And if transparency and data self determination are at
stake, the challenge may also be how to convey the transparency to the
user to allow for an informed self determination. This includes
especially methods to generate and administer user consent, even in an
IoT environment.

While the Workshop is open to a wide range of ideas, it is mainly
inspired by the idea that today, we lack the tools for those wanting to
be good citizens of the Web. It is related, but not limited to the work
on Permissions <https://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-permissions-20150407/> and
on Tracking protection <https://www.w3.org/TR/tracking-dnt/>. Because
those permissions and tracking signals carry policy data, the systems
have to react upon those signals. To react in a complex distributed
system, the signals have to be understood by more than one implementer.
The challenge is to identify the areas where such signals are needed for
privacy or compliance and to make those signals interoperable. This can
take the form taxonomies, vocabularies or ontologies. The most important
challenge is to make policy and privacy signals interoperable and
transportable within various systems, beyond the mere relation in a
browsing context. In the era of upcoming privacy regulation with high
fines, we need to make the data lake usable again while respecting the
human user.

Because of the paradigm of data self determination, the challenge is
bidirectional. Once the semantics of privacy or compliance are clear,
this information also has to be presented to the user. On the Web, this
is a challenge for the terminal equipment, including but not limited to
browsers. E.g., the set of preferences offered to the user may vary with
the capability of a service to accommodate those preferences. This needs
signaling of the possible preferences (semantics) and a way to
communicate the selection back. Such exchange can be protocol- or data
driven. Where it is data driven, the policy semantics are transported
over whatever channel is available, e.g. using linked data
<https://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/data>.


      Want to attend? Have something insightful to share?

The workshop will be held in Vienna (Austria) at the University of
Economics and Business (WU Wien). Tentatively, a video link to a
location in Boston is planned. We will have a limited number of possible
attendees at the workshop. People with ideas on how to implement data
self determination on the Web and in Linked Data should attend. Beyond
exploring Privacy Enhancing Technologies for the Web, the Workshop will
also determine whether there is interest in standardization of necessary
vocabularies and semantics that need to be agreed upon and put in place
to enable privacy enabled services, transparency and measurable
compliance to regulation or set policies.

If you want to participate, please fill out the *expression of interest
form <https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/1/2018vocabws/>* or submit a
*position statement <https://www.w3.org/2018/vocabws/#position-statements>*.

Please note, *expressions of interest and position statements are not
presentation proposals*. This is a workshop, not a conference, and any
presentations will be short, with topics suggested by expressions of
interest and decided by the chairs and program committee. Our goal is to
actively discuss topics, not to watch presentations.

Attendees are encouraged to read all accepted expressions of interest
prior to the workshop, to facilitate informed discussion.

Attendance is free for all invited participants, and open to the public
(space allowed), whether or not W3C members.

Unfortunately, the workshop budget does not allow us to provide travel
or lodging expenses to attendees.


        Workshop topics

Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following:

  * Privacy and Transparency in Linked Data
      o Identity management vocabularies
      o Categories of sensitive and personal data
      o Modeling personal data usage, processing, sharing, and tracking
      o Modeling/Interlinking aspects of privacy and provenance
      o Modeling consent and making it transportable
  * Vocabularies to model privacy policies, regulations, and involved
    (business) processes
  * New ways to put the user in control benefiting from semantic
    interoperability of policy information
  * Modeling permissions, obligations, and their scope in dealing with
    personal data (particularly, profiles and extensions of ORDL and POE
    <https://www.w3.org/2016/poe/wiki/Main_Page>)
  * Reasoning about formally declared privacy policies, in order to
    detect policy violations, breach and enforce policies
  * Exploring links and synergies using Linked Data vocabularies in the
    context of related efforts such as W3C's Social Web WG, Verifiable
    Claims WG, ODRL/POE WG, Credentials CG, and PROV WG or other
    (non-W3C) efforts (e.g. OASIS XDI, OASIS COEL, Kantarainitiative’s
    CISWG).
  * Visualizations of data and policy information to help data self
    determination, especially taking up the challenge of useful
    simplifications and layered approaches

It is important to make the policy transportable and interoperable.


          Out of Scope

  * Solutions for mere access control or permissions on the device and
    only facing the end user. Permissions or access control typically
    request access to a capability (like camera or microphone) without
    telling the user what data will be collected and for what purpose it
    will be used.
  * Mere preference stores to manage the user's personal data without
    transporting policies
  * Web Security solutions that mainly aim at encrypting or obfuscating
    data. The mere combination of encryption with another solution does
    not make it out-of-scope.


        Position statements

An author of a position statement accepted is not required to attend
(you can fill out the expression of interest form
<https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/1/2018vocabws/> instead), but it does
help set the topic discussions and to establish a particular point of
view. If you wish, you can send us a position statement
<https://www.w3.org/2018/vocabws/#submit> at
<team-privacyws-submit@w3.org> <mailto:team-privacyws-submit@w3.org>, by
26 February 2018. Our program committee will review the expressions of
interest, and select the most relevant topics and perspectives.

A good position statement should be a few paragraphs (between 500 and
1000 words) and should include:

  * Your background in Privacy, Linked Data and Web technologies
  * Where there is potential for improvement of interoperability,
    especially concerning semantics on privacy and compliance
  * Links to related supporting resources, activities and working groups
  * New approaches to data privacy and data self determination, where
    applicable.
  * A focus on technical issues, not process or platform preference. We
    plan to talk about the *what*, not the *how*.

Position statements must be in English, and HTML or plain-text format;
images should be included inline in HTML using base64-encoded data URIs.
You may include multiple topics, but we ask that each person submit only
a single coherent position statement. All suitable submitted expressions
of interest will be published and linked to from this workshop page.


        Who Should Attend

Attendance is open to all, and our aim is to get a diversity of
attendees from a variety of industries and communities, including:

  * People dealing with Linked Big Data
  * Privacy advocates
  * Data protection authorities
  * Security and privacy researchers
  * Developers of Privacy Enhancing Technologies


        Standardization Counter-arguments

There are a lot of voices and conflicting opinions in the privacy
communities. Are you skeptical that standardization should be discussed
at all? Are the same technologies that are criticized for enabling DRM
actually useful/usable to protect and enforce privacy? We also welcome
expressions of interest on issues that pose challenges to
standardization, helpful to frame workshop topics and serve as a reality
check. Please label these submissions *“Standards Con”* to distinguish them.


        Event Archive Policy: Video and Transcripts

For posterity and for those unable to attend this workshop, we may be
recording video and/or audio of the event, and will provide live notes
(minuted in IRC) of the presentations and group discussion. Participants
will be asked to sign a media waiver.


      Goals

The primary goal of the workshop is to explore interoperability in
privacy and compliance expressions using Linked Data. But based on
transportable linked data, many privacy concepts can be created. Those
are also welcome and give the workshop an additional exploratory aspect.

While we hope to identify opportunities and possible timelines for
standardization, /we do not anticipate that W3C will form a Working
Group as a direct result of this workshop/. Instead, if we do identify
areas that need Web standardization, our aim would be to incubate and
refine these ideas, to make sure that the right steps are taken at the
right time for the key stakeholders involved.


    Important Dates

26 February 2018:
    Deadline for submission of expressions of interest and position
statements
19 March 2018:
    Acceptance notification and registration instructions sent
26 March 2018:
    Program announced
02 April 2018:
    Deadline for registration
17-18 April 2018:
    Workshop

Looking forward to your input!


-- 
Postdoctoral researcher,
Institute for Information Business
Vienna University of Economics and Business
Tel: +43-1-31336-4494
E-mail: sabrina.kirrane [at] wu.ac.at



-- 
Postdoctoral researcher,
Institute for Information Business
Vienna University of Economics and Business
Tel: +43-1-31336-4494
E-mail: sabrina.kirrane [at] wu.ac.at

Received on Friday, 19 January 2018 14:10:19 UTC